To:V. A. KARPINSKY

Written:Written on October 17, 1914Published:Published in full in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      First published, but not in full, inPravdaNo. 92, April 22, 1926.

      Sent from Berne to Geneva.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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Justwhile I was staying in Genevajoyfulnews arrived
from Russia. There also arrived the text of the reply of
the Russian Social-Democrats to
Vandervelde.[1]We
therefore decided to publish, instead of a separate manifesto,
the next issue of the Central Organ,Sotsial-Demokrat.[2]Today this decision will be finally shaped, so to speak.

Andso, please take all the necessary steps as soon^as
possible to find a Frenchman, i.e., a Swiss citizen, as a
responsible editor, and to determine the costs. We think
of two pages as the size, with a format something like that
of the ParisGolos.[3]The dates of publication will be
indefinite—hardly more often than two or three timesa
monthat first. The printing will be small, because with our
orientation we cannot reckon on the man in the street (500
copies?). The price is to be about 10 centimes. All this is
stillassumption, but you need to know it for the discussion
with the compositor.

Andso, the price?

Howlong is needed for the publication (setting, etc.)
of an issue of that size?

Thenthe type? Is there only one large size, or is there
also a small size, brevier? How many thousand letters and
spaces will go into two pages ofGolosformat of
(1) large
type and
(2) small type, brevier?

Youshould not distribute the type of the manifesto
which has already been set: we shall fit it into the paper.
By Monday we shall send you some small amendmentsto the manifesto, and adifferentsignature (because after
contact with Russia we are now actingmore officially).

Athousand greetings!

Yours,Lenin

P.S.Please check up whether my letters to you arrive
absolutely to time (without any delay).

[1]Thisrefers to the Bolsheviks’ reply to Emile Vandervelde’s telegram,
which he sent to the Social-Democratic group in the Duma, appealing for
support of the Russian Government in the war against Germany. The reply,
which was published over the joint signature of the C.C. of the
R.S.D.L.P. inSotsial-DemokratNo. 33, November 1,1914, stated that in the interests of democracy and socialism the
Bolsheviks considered it an urgent task of the revolutionary proletarian
party in the period of the imperialist war to extend and consolidate the
class organisations of the proletariat and to develop the class struggle
against the imperialist bourgeoisie and its governments.

[2]Thecentral organ of the R.S.D.L.P.,Sotsial-Demokrat, was
revived by Lenin after it had been silent for almost a year. No. 33
appeared in Geneva on November 1 (14), 1914.

[3]Golos(Voice)—Menshevik daily; came out in Paris from
September 1914 to January 1915.